Hi Mark, Actually I have been considering for a long time to include such kinds of animations in the package 'animation'. In the next release (1.0-2), you will see a new function 'Rosling.bubbles()', which can generate animations like:
http://animation.yihui.name/da:ts:hans_rosling_s_talk Of course the example is meaningless currently because I'm not using real data as Hans Rosling did. Regards, Yihui On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Mark Difford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Yihui, > > That's good, I like it! Very nice site. > > Regards, Mark. > > > Yihui Xie wrote: >> >> Well, his talk seems to have attracted a lot of people... You may >> simply use gray text in your plot. Here is an example: >> >> ################################################## >> x = runif(10) >> y = runif(10) >> z = runif(10, 0.1, 0.3) >> cl = rgb(runif(10), runif(10), runif(10), 0.5) # transparent colors! >> par(mar = c(4, 4, 0.2, 0.2)) >> for (i in 1917:2007) { >> x = x + rnorm(10, 0, 0.02) >> y = y + rnorm(10, 0, 0.02) >> z = abs(z + rnorm(10, 0, 0.05)) >> plot(x, y, xlim = c(0, 1), ylim = c(0, 1), type = "n", panel.first = { >> grid() >> text(0.5, 0.5, i, cex = 5, col = "gray") # here is the text! >> }) >> symbols(x, y, circles = z, add = T, bg = cl, inches = 0.8) >> box() >> Sys.sleep(0.2) >> } >> ################################################## >> >> Not difficult at all, right? :) >> >> BTW, if you are interested in such animations, you may as well take a >> look at my "animation" package: >> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/animation/index.html >> http://animation.yihui.name/ >> >> Regards, >> Yihui >> - Show quoted text - >> >> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Agustin Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> Is there any way of having a greyed ("ghosted") text >>> (i.e, 2006) in the background of a plot? >>> I'm making a dynamic plot and would like to show the >>> year of each time step as a big greyed text in the background. >>> >>> (the idea comes from Hans Rosling video: >>> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4237353244338529080&sourceid=searchfeed >>> ) >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Agus >>> -- >>> Dr. Agustin Lobo >>> Institut de Ciencies de la Terra "Jaume Almera" (CSIC) >>> LLuis Sole Sabaris s/n >>> 08028 Barcelona >>> Spain >>> Tel. 34 934095410 >>> Fax. 34 934110012 >>> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> http://www.ija.csic.es/gt/obster >>> >> >> -- >> Yihui Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Phone: +86-(0)10-82509086 Fax: +86-(0)10-82509086 >> Mobile: +86-15810805877 >> Homepage: http://www.yihui.name >> School of Statistics, Room 1037, Mingde Main Building, >> Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China >> >> ______________________________________________ >> [email protected] mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> > -- Yihui Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: +86-(0)10-82509086 Fax: +86-(0)10-82509086 Mobile: +86-15810805877 Homepage: http://www.yihui.name School of Statistics, Room 1037, Mingde Main Building, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
